EVALUTATION:

• If serious and compelling reasons prevent the student from being present on the day of one of the exam, the instructor should be informed IN ADVANCE for possible arrangements.
• Maximum of one make-up exam and one make-up quiz per semester is allowed.

LABORATORY WORK

• During laboratory work two students will share the contents of the same laboratory locker.
• Both students are jointly responsible for the contents of their shared locker.
• The majority (not all) of the experiments are performed in pairs.
• For every experiment, each student,

1. will take active part in the work,
2. report his/her data individually,
3. do his/her own calculations,
4. turn in an individual lab report for grading purposes and
5. will be assigned an individual grade for every activity.

• Laboratory Reports are due one week after the class period in which the experiments have been performed (this is to allow working students to meet the deadline).
• Late reports are subject to a penalty of per week.
• Once the instructor has returned the graded lab reports to the class, lab reports for that particular experiment are no longer accepted for grading.
• In order to work efficiently and meet the required deadline for turning in the lab reports, you must come to the laboratory well prepared.
• This means:

1. Read carefully (several times, if needed) the Experiment you will perform (both Principles and Procedure) prior to coming to the lab.
2. Think about what will be doing and plan ahead.
3. Prepare your Laboratory Notebook in advance (Purpose of the Experiment and the appropriate Data Tables may be prepared in your Laboratory Notebook in advance).

THERE IS NO MAKE-UP LABORATORY WORK

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LABORATORY NOTEBOOK

• Each student must have a quadrille ruled, sewn Laboratory Notebook in which to record data and observations, do calculations, and analyze results of the lab work.
• The Lab Notebook must be brought with you to every lab session and all data and observations must be recorded directly into the Notebook (nowhere else) and in ink (no pencil). Laboratory records are legal documents in industry and research. They are required to support patent applications or to resolve disputes or originality of research .
• You will write only on the right hand pages. The left-hand pages are reserved for calculations and notes that do not belong on the right hand page.
• Begin with a TITLE PAGE State the course, section number, semester, the instructor's name, your name and your locker number.
• The second page is an INDEX. As you do each experiment, list it by title and enter the numbers of the pages containing text for it. Leave a second page for continuation of the Index. At the bottom of the second index page, give the complete bibliographic information for the laboratory text used. (Title, author, publisher, date.) When you do this you can cite a reference simply by "Text"; otherwise you must cite the complete reference each time.
• The remainder of the right-hand pages in the Notebook should be numbered sequentially in the upper right corner of the page.

• As you work, enter your Data/Observations in ink. If you make an error or repeat an exercise, DO NOT ERASE ANYTHING. You may draw a line through the offending information and then enter the new value (It may be necessary to do this on the left-hand page, if there is no room on the right-hand page.)
• If the entire page is in error, simply draw a diagonal line through the page and fold the page in half vertically.
• NEVER, NEVER, TEAR OUT A PAGE (other pages will fall out as well).
• BE PREPARED TO SHOW YOUR NOTEBOOK TO YOUR INSTRUCTOR AT ANY TIME!
• Additional Information about the proper usage of the Laboratory Notebook is found in Appendix II of the Laboratory Manual used for this course ("Everyday Chemistry" by Maria Fenyes, Los Angeles Mission College, Fall 96)